Web has always been about the hot new thing. It was part of why I left-in 2001.

I left for a couple of years for Windows desktop and Android native development, turns out that the GUI civil wars at Microsoft, and the whole Java vs Kotlin vs AndroidX vs JetPack vs NDK being like a 10% project, are even worse than dealing with Web quirks.

So even though I rather do native development, here we are back at the Web and distributed computing.

> the GUI civil wars at Microsoft

The wars are done.

Look at what Microsoft actually uses for GUIs, not what they recommend. All the new Microsoft apps are written in Electron.

> All the new Microsoft apps are written in Electron.

Is this why the new calculator app takes over 5 seconds to show up on screen?

Nope, that is the UWP security container most likely.

https://github.com/microsoft/calculator